Renaissance

1. Watch You Tube Video and write down each person mentioned and why they were famous (will have to do some research for a few mentioned in 'team' photo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRX_mqpzdU


  1. Leonardo Da Vinci - Paint, sculpt, design, and sing
  2. Dante - Writer. Wrote in Tuscan, The Divine Comedy, Talking of life in Heaven and Hell, and Dreaded Purgatory. He is great Florentine.
  3. Michelangelo - Paint celling upside down, Making the marble come to life
  4. Sir Thomas More - He was all for girl learning to read, working for Henry VIII, Writing Utopia, dreaming of the perfect society (world)
  5. William Shakespeare - Write plays about the days of Romans and Danish kings, (Some of his plays are: Hamlet and MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream) The Bard of the London scene
  6. Albrecht Durer - Painting, draughtsman, goldsmith, musician and a writer
  7. Miguel De Cervantes - Spanish language writer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicusm - He discovered that the sun is in the center of the universe and also discovered that the earth and all of the planets revolve around the sun
  9. Baldassare Castiglione - He was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier, and a prominent Renaissance author
  10. Pieter Brueghel - Greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century. He was well known for his Landscapes and pictures of Peasant Life.
  11. Desiderius Erasmus - Philosophy of Christ.
  12. Andreas Vesalius - Anatomist and physician and author of medical books.




2. Read the Renaissance Vook on the iPads
Part One - Write What You learned from watching each video.
Part Two - Answer the following questions -coming soon -